Example sentences of "do [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How d' you French barmen do it ? |
| 2 | But I do n't think it would do me any harm to develop some more organizational skills because mos most jobs require them . |
| 3 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 4 | Instead of square-bashing around their Berlin barracks , 500 graduates will do their military service teaching the young jobless how to use computers . |
| 5 | It would not do you any credit to stay on in Munich without an appointment . |
| 6 | ‘ It wo n't do you any good to keep me here , ’ she said at last , in a dull voice . |
| 7 | ‘ Another couple of hours , at least , and it would n't do you any harm to wait a bit . ’ |
| 8 | And she offered the book again , and he said , ‘ Why do n't you go away and do something intelligent like read a book . ’ |
| 9 | However , the Government should have done something this year to mitigate the costs of that 20 per cent . |
| 10 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 11 | No , I was gon na say mm wo n't do him any harm getting a bit of a taste of his own medicine . |
| 12 | You done it last year did n't you ? |
| 13 | They could have done it last Friday put up with mind |
| 14 | He had done what all Europe had failed to do : he had stopped Bonaparte . |
| 15 | ‘ Then ’ in 1960–3 , eighteen years ago ; and in the meantime , apart from summarising my reflections and discoveries before they passed from my memory in a slim volume entitled Medicine and politics , I have done what most ex-ministers do when they have a left most departments — given the subject a wide berth . |
| 16 | A year later , the local press was singing his praises : ‘ He has done what some people thought could never be done — make the buses pay . |
| 17 | do your black do your white dots drop into the black hole ? |
| 18 | Of course , sometimes we do feel that the other person has been rather abrupt in ending the conversation , and that is the moment when we should do our ethnomethodological analysis to identify what it was that they , or we , failed to do as part of bringing the conversation to a proper and recognizable end . |
| 19 | I had to do it that way did n't I ? |
| 20 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 21 | Would the right hon. Gentleman prefer to do what Labour last did — cut the hospital building programme and cut the other programmes ? |
| 22 | Charles hated the feeling that he was being wrapped in cotton wool ; he felt cheated when he was not allowed to do what other men did . |
| 23 | For us to retain that work we are gon na have to bend over backwards to do what Regional Railways want . |
| 24 | ‘ They asked to be on it and it 's not going to do us any harm to have Slash and Ozzy on the new album , is it ? |
| 25 | ‘ I was doing my usual Tuesday clean for you , Chris , when the phone rang . |
| 26 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 27 | ‘ Your money , Sir , will be doing its patriotic duty to make our nation wealthy . ’ |
| 28 | Since Andrew Storey was responsible for the expensive importation of Carl Krantz by the sponsors , there was obviously a good chance that he would be doing his public relations stuff in their tent . |
| 29 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |
| 30 | I suppose doing it this way limits the no of participants to how many I can cope with . |